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TIL that there is an entire episode of “Full House” devoted to making fun of people who make duck faces.

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xVKQB TIL the 1980 comedy "Airplane!" is a remake of the 1957 drama "Zero Hour!" Both are about a guilt-stricken fighter pilot who called upon to land a plane after the crew and several passengers fall ill after eating fish. Many of the lines in "Airplane!" were taken verbatim from "Zero Hour!"
b6ek0 TIL William Shatner would hide Leonard Nemoy's bicycle because Nemoy used it to get ahead in line at the commissary, going as far as tying it to rafters or placing it in a room with a territorial doberman.
6PwZ TIL 10^−360,783 is the probability that a monkey could write Hamlet in one go, including capitals and punctuation.
e0oan TIL about Rick Parker, a corrupt boxing promoter who poisoned his fighter's opponent when he refused to throw a fight. The opponent, Tim Anderson, survived and murdered Parker. Anderson is now serving life in prison.
pd1Q TIL that Samuel Morse, in the process of writing Morse Code, modeled the letter “V” as “dit-dit-dit-dah”. This was a reflection of the first 4 notes in Beethoven’s Symphony No.5 also known as the “Victory symphony”.